A review by michelleboydwaters
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry

5.0

The Great Influenza not only analyzes how our country responded to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, but also interprets how efforts of leading scientists to build a world-class medical system leading up to the early 20th century created the conditions in which our country experienced and responded to that pandemic. The book, originally published in 2004 and with new afterwards published in 2009 and 2018, also sheds light on how we've prepared for our current pandemic and demonstrates how our current leaders' responses echo what happened in the past.